Rachel Bovard joins Glenn Beck to dissect the Save America Act, noting Mitch McConnell's surprising vote for debate despite his opposition. The conversation pivots to conspiracy theories about Islamists transforming the U.S. and analyzes Joe Kent's ideological shift as a power play within the MAGA movement. Beck argues Trump remains central while positioning JD Vance for domestic anti-corruption roles and Marco Rubio for foreign policy tests, suggesting Republican splits are purely about 2028 leadership dynamics rather than policy. Ultimately, the episode frames current legislative maneuvers as performative steps in an ongoing struggle for conservative dominance. [Automatically generated summary]
So the letter that came out from Joe Kent, was it a power play?
Was it about the next election?
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Also, MAGA 2028, how Trump is allowing a decision on who's going to replace him between Vance and Rubio.
Two separate paths, and I think a lot of people have missed this.
Also, what is happening with the Save America Act?
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I wanted to bring Jason Buttrill in with us, chief researcher and also kind of head military guy.
I've been watching all of the stuff for military.
Love to hear your take on Joe Kent and what you think is happening.
Well, first of all, it really annoys me that some people are trying to just shut down all conversations on Joe Kent because they refer back to his veteran status and what he has done in the past.
And he's done great stuff.
Which he's done great stuff.
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Yeah.
And again, hold two thoughts in your head at the same time.
You can do it.
It's called chewing gum and walking.
You can do two things at once.
He can be a great military hero and something that you got to go, wait a minute, what is happening here?
Right.
Because otherwise, I am also a veteran.
I also served in a foreign war in Afghanistan.
I can break every single FCC rule that's out there right now.
I'm going to start right now.
Let's not.
Oh, I thought that I was absolved.
No, you don't absolve.
You don't get absolved because you are a veteran.
That was my one shot.
I was going to go for it.
That's it.
No, no, really bad idea.
So that, for one, irks me.
But for two, his shift in ideology is something that I cannot explain.
I don't think anyone can explain right now.
You can't go from having the mindset that you had just a few years ago, probably just a few months ago.
I don't know when this shift happened.
But you can't go from knowing that Iran is the global state sponsor of terror, the number one, which he has said in the past.
You can't go from saying, look, we have to support Israel in this fight against Iran because they are so bad with their proxies.
Everything has destabilized the entire region and they threaten us.
You believe that.
You say that Donald Trump during his first term should have gone farther.
And these are the things he lists off.
Attacking nuclear sites, attacking their position, their ability to project power outside the country, attacking proxies.
You have to do that.
Almost not a direct quote, but pretty much around what he was saying was you need to address those things.
I wish he would have, but he didn't.
But I trust the president has a plan.
Everything he was describing a few years ago is exactly what the war is looking like today.
So let me ask you, as we look for an answer on what happened, the guy is crazy.
The guy's anti-Semitic.
La, There might be a really simple answer to this.
2028.
The MAGA world is up for grabs.
Donald Trump is not going to be the head of MAGA.
So what does MAGA mean?
That's what's being defined right now.
All of this just may be, I hate to be so cynical here.
And again, my opinion, but I'm looking for things that make sense to me.
Everything is about power.
Everything is always about power, power, money, control.
And you have the biggest movement in America in my lifetime, MAGA.
And it's going to be handed off to somebody.
Somebody is going to take this.
Now, There are those that would say, split it.
So there is the left that would love to see us split.
But there are also those who have such different viewpoints on what MAGA should do.
They will not take on Donald Trump.
And this is my key point with Joe.
Joe, your argument is actually with Donald Trump.
If what you say is true, then your argument is with Donald Trump because he's not a moron.
He's not a Patsy.
He's not senile.
He's not stupid.
I can guarantee you, I know, I know the man surrounds himself.
The guy spent 30 minutes on the phone with me one time, which he did not have to do, talking about trade.
I want to hear your argument against trade.
Tell me, tell me, why are you against, why are you against tariffs?
He didn't need to do that, but he actually listened and engaged.
He surrounds himself with people who have his worldview, but he also, equally as important, brings people in that have a different point of view.
So there's no way he just took all of the, he's too smart.
He knows that was the reason we got into Iran.
I mean, sorry, Iraq, weapons of mass destruction.
He has been preaching at Weapons of Mass Destruction Live, George W. Bush, since the day he said it.
So somebody walks into his office and says, you know, weapons of mass destruction.
What do you think he's going to say?
What do you think he's going to say?
He's going to say, no, I don't believe that.
Show it to me.
Okay.
So your argument has to be about Donald Trump, if you're Joe Kent.
But notice it's not.
Why wouldn't you make it about Donald Trump?
Why would you say, and you were the best president ever?
You just got us into a war that is serving only Israel and not America.
If that's what you believe, why would you say, and it's an honor and a kissy, kissy, kissy, I love you so much.
You wouldn't say that unless you're trying to hold on to him to be able to hold the people who are MAGA.
Notice Donald Trump, they're MAGA on both sides.
They're not split on Donald Trump.
Okay?
They're split on the policies, but he is the policy.
He is the guy making the policy.
But everybody who splits from him, they know, split from his policy, they know, keep him happy.
Keep him in line.
He's our guy.
But look at this policy.
This is horrible.
This is the worst thing ever.
It's the Jews that are doing that.
Well, no, excuse me.
If you believe that, then you have to say Donald Trump is in with the Jews because he's not a moron.
So he must knowingly be doing these things because that's what Donald Trump always said about politicians.
Why do we get into these wars?
Why do we get into bad trade deals?
Because our presidents don't know what they're doing and they're idiots.
So if you believe Donald Trump is smart enough to recognize that situation in others, then you have to say, if you believe what Joe Kent did, you have to say, Donald Trump's smart enough to recognize he's in bed making the same mistakes that all the other presidents made.
But they don't do it.
This is all about politics.
This is about the next election.
Right now, you are being shaped.
I want you to start looking at the news in a different way.
I want you to start looking at the news.
This is so cynical and I hate this.
But I want you to start looking at all of the news when it comes to MAGA as who wins if I believe this?
What do they gain if I believe this?
They gain half of MAGA because there is that split going on right now.
Am I wrong, Ricky?
You see where I'm going?
Oh, I see where you're going.
And honestly, there's probably some of these folks that would love nothing more than to have President Trump's endorsement.
Exactly right.
So you can stay on his good side.
You have to have his good side.
You have to remain on his good side if you want to hold any part of MAGA.
And both sides of MAGA now love Donald Trump.
And I've not been able to work that out in my head.
How you're going against all of his policies, but he is the policy.
I mean, I stood in the hallway with JD Vance and Marco Rubio and had a conversation with Bo.
And I've never seen any, I've had conversations at this level before, and I've never seen politicians do this ever before.
What is happening?
You guys are on fire right now.
Both of them separately.
One, JD came in after I was talking to Marco, but Marco was there when JD said it.
And I said, Marco just said the same thing.
It's not us.
We go in every morning and he tells us this is what we're doing today.
We're just doing it.
It's him.
So nobody's duping the president.
Nobody is.
This is not the fault of Marco Rubio, not the fault of Pete Hegseth, not the fault of the CIA.
It is Donald Trump.
He deserves all the credit and all the blame if you don't like it.
You can't give him all the credit and none of the blame.
Otherwise, he's not the guy you think he is.
And believe me, he is the guy you think he is.
So, again, I don't have anything to back this up in fact.
So don't take my word as gospel.
But I'm looking for things that make sense.
This doesn't make sense.
He turned on a dime, turned on a dime.
So that is either outside influence, which it could be, or it's more cynical than that.
It's, I see a way to play a role in MAGA after this president is done.
I'm positioning myself to play some role in MAGA 2028, and I'm putting my chips in the anti-Israel MAGA movement.
I think that's what's happening.
Could be wrong.
Again, I just say we could solve this.
Show me the proof.
Show me the proof, Joe.
And by the way, Ricky just gave me a tweet that said, what was it?
You said it was a tweet or was it?
Oh, there was lots of tweets about yesterday's commentary that went viral.
People are saying, I've never heard you tell anyone else, I don't want your opinion.
I want facts until just now.
No, you can have an opinion, but you need the facts first.
You have to have the facts first.
That is something I've been saying for the last few weeks.
Once we got into this war, I said, I have been watching the news and everybody has an opinion.
Everybody has an opinion.
Can you give me any facts first?
Then tell me what it means.
I don't need your opinion.
You don't need, I said in that monologue yesterday, I don't, I don't want to be somebody where you're taking my opinion and just running with my opinion.
My opinion is my opinion.
As I said yesterday, I have an ass and an opinion, and they're both worth the same thing.
When it comes to things like this, when we're trying to figure things out, when we are looking at all of this, something this important, you have to start with the facts.
And again, because I know one of them said, Glenn, why don't you produce your facts that it didn't happen?
Did you grow up in Russia?
Where'd you grow up?
Because I grew up in the United States of America.
The accuser presents the facts.
The accused is innocent until proven guilty.
So you could make that case.
I might even believe you.
If you have the facts, I might even, without facts, be inclined to believe you that, yep, I bet you the CIA is doing that kind of stuff.
Might even be inclined.
But that doesn't make the person guilty.
That doesn't mean that what you said is true.
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I don't have to prove the innocent.
You have to prove the guilt.
That's the way it works in America.
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Defining The Next Battlefield00:15:21
So there are moments, like I said, where something small is the tell here.
And it's a quiet move that reveals the whole strategy.
And what happened just a couple of days ago was one of those moments.
A task force was announced on fraud.
And if it were any other administration, it would just be, you know, housekeeping.
It would be, you know, another headline, another promise to clean things up in Washington.
You know, Washington creates task force all the time and they never solve any of the problems.
But this one is different.
This one is different, not because of what it says on paper, but because who is standing at the center of it?
Donald Trump started a task force on corruption led by JD Vance.
So who's standing there at the head of it is important.
And just as important is who is not.
I want you to think of everything through the eyes of 2028.
And let's look at the board the way a strategist would look at it.
Where's Marco Rubio right now?
Marco Rubio has more jobs than anybody I have ever, anybody I've ever met.
He is right now exactly where you'd expect him to be, deep in foreign policy, standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump and the administration in one of the most volatile geopolitical moments in my lifetime.
This thing could be a miracle, could be a massacre, could be horrible in the end.
Don't know yet.
Iran, energy, global alliances, the risks of escalation into World War III.
This is the highest stakes I've ever seen a president play at.
High visibility, high risk, and whoever is with it is either a hero or a villain.
And if it works, there's stability.
There's lower oil prices.
There's a real peace dividend by 26 or 27.
And Rubio will look like an amazing statesman.
He becomes the natural heir, the man who helps steady the world.
But if it doesn't, what happens to Rubio?
If the war drags, if the costs mount, if Americans feel it in their wallets and their son and daughters start coming home in boxes, that position is an absolute anchor.
Now shift your focus here for a second.
We got Rubio.
But I started talking about JD Vance.
So let me go back to JD Vance.
Where's JD Vance?
Right now on this issue, where is JD Vance?
I've heard rumors.
He's not really with the president on this one, but I haven't seen any statements.
And I haven't seen the president say, yeah, he's kind of weak on this.
Normally he would say something like, JD Vance is just not anywhere near this storm.
He's standing somewhere else entirely.
Donald Trump, say what you want about him, but the guy is a freaking genius.
He is going to make sure that the America first idea that MAGA goes on well after him.
Because what did he do?
He's put JD Vance at the same time the war, fraud, corruption, government waste.
That's not accidental.
That is positioning.
Because what Trump said almost offhandedly is actually, I think, the thesis of the next election.
He said, and I quote, if we found half the fraud, we'd have a balanced budget.
That line is not about accounting.
That line is about framing.
It reframes the entire economic argument away from the painful choices, cuts, taxes, austerity, all the things that everybody else in every other country, their politicians talk about.
We've got to cut our way through austerity.
We have to start doing, uh-uh.
This would be emotionally unifying.
The message is someone is stealing from you.
And all we have to do is stop the threat and stop the theft.
And we're going to be okay.
And not in theory.
The story out of Minneapolis, billions of dollars siphoned from programs meant for the vulnerable.
I mean, it just couldn't get any, I mean, if I were writing a script, it couldn't get any better.
Wait, you're taking the money from children who are hungry?
If I'm writing a script, I've got my bad guy.
It gives the argument teeth, faces, numbers, outrage.
And now Vance is being handed the mandate to go find more, not quietly, publicly, relentlessly.
Trump even telegraphed this.
He said, this is not going to be ceremonial.
It won't be symbolic.
He said, quote, there's not going to be another czar with no title or with a title and no teeth.
Basically, not going to be Kamala going down and trying to figure out what's happening with our border.
And that's the contrast he uses.
He defined in advance what leadership is supposed to look like.
And he assigned Vance the role of proving it.
Now let's step back from the whole board and look at the whole board again.
You have one potential successor tied to global outcomes that he can't fully control, but he's going to be tied with that.
Another one being given a domestic mission that can be prosecuted daily, case by case, headline by headline, building a narrative that feeds directly into the next campaign.
JD Vance is going to be the guy against Gavin Newsom because he's going to find the corruption in California.
So that pits him against Newsom.
By 2028, we'll know what the Republican message will be.
Not just growth, not just strength abroad, but this.
Your government was looted.
The biggest theft in American history happened.
Somebody robbed our treasury, and we can prove it, and we stopped it.
That's a pretty powerful argument against governors like Gavin Newsom or any other Democrat running on expanding programs and increasing spending and promising more systems.
Because the counter is going to be simple.
Before you do more, can you explain why the system wasn't protected in your state the last time?
Can you explain where the money went?
Can you explain why no one in your state stopped it?
And if Vance is the one uncovering those answers, if he becomes the face of that accountability, then he isn't just part of the administration.
He becomes the argument.
Same thing with everything that is happening with Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio will become the face of whatever it is that happens with this, not only this war, but the entire strategy of our foreign policy.
You have the pot, if it goes well, you have the possibility of the two best candidates I've ever seen in my lifetime because we will know on record what they are capable of doing.
We will have seen them in action.
This is how you build a successor without naming one.
You give them a lane.
You give them a mission.
You give them victories to see and feel, but you also give them a place to fail.
If they're not going to be presidential, if they are not the ones for the job, we'll know it because they will have failed.
You let time do all the rest.
There's one condition that determines whether any of this works, and that is the economy, because it always comes back to that.
If people are working, If wages stabilize, if the inflation cools, then the fraud narrative becomes gasoline already on a moving engine.
If the economy is struggling, then even the most compelling corruption story isn't going to be enough.
But make no mistake on what is happening here.
This is not just about fraud.
This is about defining the battlefield of the next election.
And quietly, without a speech, without a rally, without a declaration, Trump just put two pieces on the board.
You watch those two pieces.
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We're just talking on the Insider podcast.
That is what happens during commercials.
And usually we're filling in with stuff that we just didn't have time for.
And I didn't get a chance to talk about how if you have a grocery store now in Washington State, you're not allowed.
I mean, you leave, but they're claiming now that that can be the state's property because it's essential.
So you can't sell the grocery store and leave.
You're providing an essential service.
So the state will just take it.
The other thing is there is a bill in Olympia, Washington.
Get this one.
Okay, they can't hire any police officers in Washington State.
Why?
Oh, I don't know.
Police just don't want to work here for some reason.
I wonder why.
So they can't hire any police officers.
So what are they doing?
They are actually making it full police powers, carrying a weapon, enforcing the laws of Washington state, making arrests, all of that.
If you are a non-citizen, according to Senate Bill 5068, legislation allow non-U.S. citizens to become law enforcement officers and prosecutors.
People who are here illegally enforcing the law and being the prosecutors.
Oh my God.
What?
Get out.
Okay.
Let me go to Rachel Bovard.
She is CPI Vice President of Programs.
And she has made the best case online.
She can make all of this bullcrap Senate speak understandable because, you know, we've got the Save Act coming.
And we've got John Corden on our side now.
It's fixed.
John Thune, he's still a little skeptical, but Corden's on our side.
So Rachel is here to tell us exactly what is happening with the Save America Act, how this is working, and what we should expect, Rachel.
Hi, Rachel.
Hi there.
Great to be back.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you.
So what is actually happening with this?
So after months at this point of the Senate Republicans resisting doing anything on the Save America Act because, you know, they don't have the votes.
They can't do it.
John Thune, to his credit, has actually moved to proceed to the House-passed bill.
He did that yesterday.
So what that means is the Senate is what we call on the bill.
It is the pending business before the Senate, and they are now debating it.
So once they got on the bill yesterday, and that took the votes of Mitch McConnell voting yes, even though he opposes the bill, Lisa Murkowski voting no, and Tom Tillis taking a walk and not even showing up to the vote.
But they got the 51 votes necessary to be on the bill.
And at that point, Jon Thune came down to the floor and filled the amendment tree, which is just a fancy way of saying he blocked Democrats from being able to offer any amendments, and he put before the Senate the changes that President Trump has asked to see in the bill.
So mail-in balloting, limitations on or bans of trans surgeries for minors, protecting girl sports, things like that.
So the Senate is now in a period of deliberation.
And I will say, because the way the Senate has operated for the last 20 years is a historical aberration from the way the Senate operated for 200 years.
What normally happens is you bring the bill to the, you know, in the last 20 years is they brought a bill to the floor and the leader immediately files cloture, which is how the Senate ends debate.
He does this before the Senate has any debate.
Yeah.
Right.
And then the bill dies at 60 votes.
We all shrug our shoulders and go home.
This is something.
John Thune.
This is the way I remember the Senate working.
The Senate was the great deliberative body.
And they would stand there sometimes for days and debate stuff.
I haven't seen this since maybe George W. Bush.
Right.
People still have living memories of the Senate actually functioning.
It's amazing.
But, you know, the fact that Jon Thune went down to the floor and didn't file cloture, he did fill the amendment tree, which limits what can happen, but he didn't file cloture immediately.
Just that simple fact means that right now, the Senate floor is the most open that it's been in maybe a decade.
It's remarkable.
So what the Senate Republicans do now is up for debate, right?
Like they actually do or are debating the bill, but like we want to see them actually put some effort into this deliberative process, which many of the senators themselves on the Republican side have never seen, right?
The newer senators have never witnessed a Senate like this.
So we'd like to see them lean into the process.
But I think, you know, I'm not willing to give Jon Thune a million bucks of credit, but he does get some from me and my book by just actually doing this, starting the process.
So do we stop calling them or writing?
Or, I mean, what is this just a show?
Well, that's the question.
And I think, you know, we are only in this position because the conservative movement demanded it, and they demanded it without ceasing.
And Jon Thun, again, you know, I think felt like he had to do something.
And so that's the question now.
Is this all going to be performative?
Or are we going to actually see the Senate trying to deliberate?
Because what deliberation is, is the Senate doing what it's for, trying to build consensus, trying to physically punish obstruction, right, by forcing Democrats to the floor to talk, forcing them into this negotiation, letting them know as a matter of procedure and a matter of time that Republicans are not going to let up here.
Even if they have to pivot to fund DHS or they have to pivot to confirm Mark Wayne Mullen or, you know, or pass FISA, they can still come back to this bill.
Is Jon Thune Performative00:04:30
And I think that's what we now want to see Jon Thune telegraph, that this is just not a one-and-done exercise.
That, yeah, the Senate will be on this bill for the next week, but if he puts up a cloture vote at the end of it and it doesn't get 60, that's just the beginning of the process.
Because remember, a cloture vote, which is how the Senate tries to end debate, doesn't kill the bill.
It simply says we don't have enough senators to end debate yet.
Let's come back to this.
You know, Jon Thune should telegraph to all of us.
This year, we are going to do our darndest to pass this bill.
And it takes weeks, it takes months.
We're here to do it.
Rachel, can I just be a little black rain cloud?
Yes, of course.
I've been around long enough to know it's an election year.
They're going to just keep talking about this.
We're doing our darndest.
Boy, we're in here fighting like crazy.
And then the election will happen.
And then it's over.
I mean, that's the way it always happens.
I mean, I hope this is different.
Well, one of the reasons I think myself and a lot of people have been proposing initially the talking filibuster on this bill in particular is because setting aside the merits of the bill, which are very good, I just think it's good politics for the Republicans.
I do too.
I don't think they've given the voters anything to turn out for.
And people don't remember what you've done, right?
They remember what you're doing.
That's the old political adage.
I think that matters right now.
And so my hope was always Republican senators would see the benefit in actually putting their backs into it and seeing the benefit of actually trying to pass this bill.
And once you start that momentum, you hope they pick it up.
So why don't they?
And we'll see.
I think, one, I think there's a level of detachment that exists between Republican voters and their base, particularly in the Senate.
But two, I think honestly, the Chamber and the Republicans have just been so inured to, they've been habituated to this cycle of just they don't do anything, right?
The Senate works two and a half days a week.
They don't amend things anymore.
They don't deliberate.
So this is a muscle that hasn't been flexed in a very long time, which is why simply starting the process was important to prove that they can do things.
And you hope that in the process they remember.
Donald Trump hasn't been this clear on something in a while.
Last time he was, it was the other big, beautiful bill.
And he got that through.
Is he leaning into this as hard as he needs to?
And is JD Vance, is there a possibility that JD Vance can just come in and hijack this thing and just go, okay, look, I'm in charge now.
Well, I mean, Trump has said in very clear terms, I don't want to deal with any other legislation until you get this passed.
You know, it was fascinating to me that he said that.
And then John Thun goes to the press and says, oh, the only supporters of this, it's just really an online paid influencer ecosystem.
Well, I'm sorry, the president of the United States just said this is a major priority.
So do you take him seriously or not?
So, you know, I think Trump may have to get a little aggressive with Senate Republicans and show them he means it.
You know, in terms of Vance's role, he does have a role as the president of the Senate, but there's not much he can do on the floor, right?
He can sit in the chair.
He can make parliamentary rulings as they come up.
But at the end of the day, this still lies at the feet of Jonathan.
He is the only person who can corral his conference as the leader to get them to do this.
And I think this is his biggest test so far.
Yeah, I have to tell you, when Donald Trump said that, you know, we're bombing Iran, I thought to myself, thank God I'm not the president because I don't have the stones that it would take to start something that could end up really, really well or could end us up being World War III.
I just don't have that kind of confidence.
I'm not that guy.
And, you know, look at the difference.
We have that, and then we have, you know, probably the toughest, hardest thing any president has done is to make that call, knowing what he knows about endless wars and the way the politics are going to shake out if it goes wrong.
He knows all that, yet he still makes that.
And then you have John Thune, and all he has to do is support the most popular, bipartisan, popular bill I've seen in probably 30 years.
And he's like, well, I don't know.
It's going to be kind of tough.
I mean, what a wuss.
What an absolute wuss.
Well, that's just, it kind of goes to the point of what is the Senate for, right?
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People, to your, or just earlier point, have living memories of when the Senate was, you know, had titans, right?
when the Senate moved history just by coming to the floor and exercising the muscles of the institution to deliberate, to persuade, to build consensus, to muscle things through by sheer physical effort, because that is what the chamber allows.
And it's been so neutered that, you know, we are, again, even as voters, there are people who think that bills pass the Senate is 60 votes because every single silent filibuster is simply, oh, clotures invoked.
We didn't get 60.
We just shrug our shoulders and go home.
That's not the end.
It's never been the end for 200 years.
So we're trying to get the Senate to restore itself.
Well, Rachel, thank you for explaining it in a way that I think everybody can understand.
I was reading your tweets and I'm like, okay, okay, I get it.
I get it.
Because there's so much bull crap in, oh my gosh, their language is so screwed up.